Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 258, Decatur, Adams County, 1 November 1958 — Page 8

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Social Security Quiz Answers Many Queries

(Editor’s note: Do you have any questions about Social Security? We all do, don't we? Send any question you might have to Social Security Quiz, c/o Daily Democrat. You’ll find your answer in this column, which is published each Saturday.) 1. I am 42 years old. I am leaving my position which is covered by social security and entering employment which is not covered. Should I freeze my social security account? No. You cannot freeze your social security account unless you become disabled for work. A switch ut'-jobs may not mean that you have lost social security protection for yourself and your family. In fact, if you already have 40 quarters of coverage, or ten full years of covered work, you will remain insured even if you do not

Your Vote Will Be Appreciated RCSERT E - GAY I m ' M Democratic Candidate For V TRUSTEE Washington Township “Interested in the K Education of ALL School Children in . '■ Washington Township" mVKNHB — ELECTION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1958 Pol. Advt.

OEWKITI!’ HKIDQUIIITOS WILL BE OPEN ' AU Day Tuesday ELECTION DAY! Phone - 3-3071 or 3-3862 IF YOU NEED*. . . * TRANSPORTATION TO THE POLLS! ★ A BABY SITTER WHILE YOU VOTE ! IWVUUWUUVUVUVVWUMVUUUUWVWUUVVUUUVVt I FREE COFFEE and DONUTS I x 2 wwwuvwwtfwwwwwvwwwwwwvw DEMOCRiTIC HEADQUARTERS 164 S. Second Street For COUNTY COMMISSIONER — FIRST DISTRICT I am a candidate for re-election to serve you as COUNTY COMMISSIONER on the MHHHBBBI Republican Ticket IgL ' tsfe I was born August 9, 1901. I married Emma Mitch November 25, 1925. < I’ We have 4 children. . I worked at IHC for 17 years. HBH We purchased our home in 1927 and have farmed &since 1932. / -• We purchased a Hardware at Wren, Ohio, which ""MWWP I operated 14 years. R * have served my Party as Precinct Committeernan * n N- St. Mary’s Twp. since 1944. I belong to Calvary Evangelical United Brethren Church, of which I am a Trustee and also Treas-■--’iy® urer and Sunday School teacher. I have served as your County Commissioner for 2 ® years. Listed below are some of the things we have ■k ’ achieved during this time: Im ■■ have P a * n ted buildings, repaired roofs and spouting, rearranged a lot of the drainage system || ” f the Adams County Home to endeavor to qualify the same as an Accredited Welfare Home. At the Adams County lEourthouse, we have built new. sidewalks, put on a new roof, repaired spouting, installed new lighting equipment gi the Welfare Office, completely sand blasted the Peace Monument, placed new shrubbery around the Peace Monument and completely redecorated both Public Rest rooms. , All Highway equipment is in A-l shape. Besides all this we have done a number of other things-for the improvement of our County. If elected, I promise an honest, efficient and economical administration of county business. I will greatly appreciate your support. ROLAND J. MILLER Pol. Advt.

work under social security again. 2. I am disabled, over age 50, and have applied for disability insurance benefits. If I am granted these payments, will they interfere with any benefits to which my survivors may be eligible in the event of my death? No. The receipt of distbility Insurance benefits will have no effect on the entilement of your family to survivors insurance payments in the event of your death. 3. Should I bring a record of I call at the social security office all the wages I have received when to file my application for benefits? The wily record the social security office will need will be for the last year. Our records are not yet complete tor that year, so it will help if you bring the W 2 forms given you by your em-

ployers. This will often save considerable time in the payment of your first benefit check. Your social security office will send to our Baltimore office for the record of your earnings for previous years for use in figuring the amount of your benefits. 4. What proportion of the public is affected by social security? Over eight million persons are receiving retirement checks each month. Another two and three quarter million widows, children and other survivors are receiving monthly payments. More than nine out of ten American workers are building toward a retirement income for themselves under the system, and nifie out of ten mothers and children in the country would get survivors insurance payments if the family bread-winner died. 5. I recently applied tor disability benefits and was given a form to take to my doctor. If my doctor states on this form that I am totally disabled, will I get disability benefits? Your doctor is not asked to decide whether or not you are dis--1 abled within the meaning of the only to give the true medical facts social security law. He is asked about your condition and when it I began, The decesion ■ began. The decision as to whether I you are “disabled" under the so- ; cial security law will be made by an agency of your state. A proses- ; sional group in that agency, which will include at least one doctor of medicine, will consider the medical evidence and other facts about your education, training and the jobs you have held in the past, in deciding whether you are so disi abled that you cannot engage in i any substantial, gainful activity. 6: My husband is receiving social security benefits. We were ! married exactly three years ago. : I will be 62 next month. Will I have to show proof of my age of Imy marriage when lapply for benefits? “'i Yes. Proof of a wife's age is always required, and since you were ■ only married a few years, proof of marriage will also be required. 7. What amount of money was j paid out to social security benefi- i

THE DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, DECATUR, INDIANA

r~ r v ‘ A i * ill “ 'Jr J * Ufwr 1 EMRb’ BIGGEST VET—Dust chums up in Nevada from largest unadrground atomic explosion so far, which caused an earthshaking recorded clear to Fairbanks, Alaska, 2.300 miles away. The blast was detonated in a 2,600-foot tunnel which went 850 feet below the earth's surface. In Los Angeles a seismograph (lower) chart compares the shock, from 333 miles away, with that of an earthquake 35 miles from San Francisco. The earthquake charted a four and one-fourt*-reading (upper line), the atomic blast four and three-fourths

ciaries in Indiana during the last year? insurance payments under Fed-Old-age survivors and disability 1 era I social security totaled $163.896,000 in Indiana for the year ended December 31, 1956. These are the last official figures we have at this time. BOTH INDIANA (Continued ?reai page one) being dominated by United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther. Capehart said Handley should succeed Jenner “because there is no substitute for experience and maturity in Washington.” In his major speech Friday. | Hartke told a Marion rally that Handley represents a negative approach to good government. Hartke said it seems to be Handley's “task in life...to dig a moat around Indiana to keep out toe wisdom and wealth of the worJld and the security that comes to a ■ land that is protected by the Federal Constitution.” He said if Handley were elected to the Senate he would not vote on foreign aid; he would vote against unemployment compensation in times of recession. Another issue in the campaign, Hartke said, is whether a candidate can use the material of the .“bigots, hate-mongers, and race agitators” in his political literature. *' Hartke told his audience that Hoosiers “cannot afford six years I jf ‘High Tax’ Harold in the U. S Senate , PARADE iCGUtlnuetPiTCm page cns) GaTCchaney; best ghost, Nick Conrad; most original adult. Bill Strahm; best masked group of 3 or more, Brenda Lee Marbach and group; best clown, Darrel Harmon; tallest man, a tie with Joe Gray and Jim Beery both receiving prizes; most comically dressed pet, Vincent Parker; best masked couple, Mrs. Weiland and Susan Amstutz; and most original girl, Judy Double. The placing of the other bands competing for the first prize 1 award and the points received by each follow: Pleasant Mills,l 248 points; Adams Central 256! ooints; Hartford, 238 points, and, Willshire. 234 points. General chairman, Jim Webti, epressed his appreciation today tor the co-operation of all of the judges and individuals connected with the parade and the fall festival by making the parade a huge success. MEN ENTOMBED “He has been working in the mine for 17 years, but I never gave up hope,” she said. ‘TH never let him go down in that mine again.” Rescue Work Continues The father of Clark, the second man brought up, also said he’d never let his son return to the mine. “I want him to go to Toronto and get into some other line of business,” Thomas Clark said. The company said rescue operations would continue. Seventy volunteers, including teams of draegermen—specially trained rescuers equipped with oxygen masks—continued to dig through tons of rubble and shattered mine equipment in the hope of finding additional survivors. Above at toe pithead, encouraged relatives kept up their weary watch. Activity in the town of 7,000 went on at a funeral pace. There were no Halloween festivities Friday night. No one felt like celebrating.

Corn Referendum To Be Held November 25 All Corn Sharers Eligible To Vote Any resident of Adams eounty ! who produced corn in 1958 or was | entitled to share in the 1958 corn crop will be eligible to vote in the corn referendum November 25, Harvey Garboden of county agri- , cultural stabilization and conservaI tion office announced today. An owner-operator, cash tenant standing rent Or fixed-rent tenant, a share tenant or sharecropper oi the landlord of a share tenant wil' be eligible to vote. The landlord of a standing rent, cash rent, or fixed rent tenant will not be eligible In addition, Garboden said, there ■are three other groups of eligible voters: fl) Any operator or landlord of a farm for which a 1958 corn allotment was established even though corn was not planted; (2) Any person who planted com in 1958 but •mt harvest it; and (3) Air ’0 placed corn al lotment ’’ ;i the soil bank ir 1958. The purpose of the Novembereferendum will be to determint whether the present corn progran should be changed for 1959 and la ter years to a new program ii which there would be no acreag< allotments on corn and price sup ports would be determined on i different basis. 12-Year-Old Boy Is Found Shot To Death Boy Scout's Body Is Found In Woods JOLIET, 111. (UPD —A 12-year I Id Boy Scout was found shot death today in a wooded area eas ; of here. The boy, David Benson, Jolie ■had been shot in the head ant the abdomen with a .38 calibei bullet. Sheriff’s deputies said ther were marks about his throat, Indi "ating that something tight hat b~en •"'und around his neck. ’.Villard Blood safc ' killed the boy en'•"s left eye and lodget behind his right ear.” Sheriff Roy Doerfler ordered ai autopsy but said there was no im mediate indication David had beei molested. Deputies searched the surround ing area but found no trace of : gun. ■Die boy’s zipper bag containing his books was found about 10 f feet from the body on a path that ran along the top of a ravine, f group of Boy Scouts found David’: body lying face down on an in cline run?’ " down into the ravine. SPIRITUAL untinued fr-rr oaee one) president of the Evangelical Mennonite church, .president of the Congo Island mission board, and a director of the Christian service foundation. He has traveled extensively in Africa and the Middle East in the interests of Christian missions. , The first Protestant Sunday School in America was founded in Savannah, Ga., in 1736.

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